Read full poem →(WITH SEVERAL OTHERS),
WERE IN ONE INSTANT KILLED BY LIGHTNING,
THE LAST DAY OF JULY 1718.
Dictionary Entry
To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
In a Sentence
“Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “killed”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To lull you till one stilled you,
To kiss you till one killed you,
To feed you till one filled you,
Read full poem →I killed him! My God! Don't you hear?
I shook him until his red tongue
Read full poem →Like stinging ice, and his passion, chilled,
Lay in his heart like some dead thing killed
At the moment of birth. Then, deadly sick,
Read full poem →Silent and winter-killed I stand,
No carol hymns my debt to you;
Read full poem →For digging and for delving, but indeed,
Until I killed a beast or two, and spread
Skins upon sticks to make our palace here,
Read full poem →In the fifth--I forget, but four good reasons are ample.
Meantime, pray let 'em fight, and be killed. I delight in devotion.
So that I 'list not, hurrah for the glorious army of martyrs!
Read full poem →And to appear, I suppose, were but common civility. Yes, and
Truly I do not desire they should either be killed or offended.
Oh, and of course, you will say, ‘When the time comes, you will be
Read full poem →For digging and for delving, but indeed,
Until I killed a beast or two, and spread
Skins upon sticks to make our palace here,
Read full poem →_Adam._ For what is life, and what is pain or death?
You have killed Abel: Abel killed the lamb—
An act in him prepense, in you unthought of.